From the first time that we speak, we are corrected or shamed for any delays or repetitions. Parents, teachers, and our fellow students notice and stigmatize all nonconforming speech. Society intervenes to change the individual, adding anxiety to our lives and making it more difficult to speak, instead of encouraging us to be confident speaking as we will.

Individually and collectively, we must begin to understand ‘stuttering’ as a result of ableist expectations, norms, and values spread throughout our culture, and refuse to let our bodies and selves be pathologized. This process can only be accomplished through education and a reimagining of our speech, our identities, and our society. We therefore also need communities that affirm the necessity of dysfluent voices, instagram苹果免费永久加速器 naming and resisting the ableism through which we have become objects of shame and pity. We must together unlearn a lifetime of self-hatred, subjugation, and silencing.   

There is no hope of empowerment as long as dysfluent speech is shamed. We remain alone and stigmatized as long as we are led to believe that dysfluent speech is a problem. We need to be given the choice of whether or not to receive speech rehabilitation. Dysfluency-positive and dysfluency-negative perspectives should always be offered before choosing long term speech therapy. We contend that at any age multiple perspectives on dysfulency are an absolute necessity for autonomous choice regarding one's therapeutic options.